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Show POMONA: if the kerwels of natural Apples (or of ungraffed Trees ) fhould produce the fame, or fome other variety of Apples, (as fometimes it fucceeds) yet would this care be feldom opere pretium, and at beft but a work of Chance,the difappointment falling outfo often through the ficklenefs of the Soi! : Or admit that the moft proper and conftant, yet would the very dews and raiz, by various and mutable Seafons, and even bythe ir it felf, (which operates beyond vulgar perception, in the very changes as well of the would, as ofthefeeds andfruit) create almoft infinite alterations: And the choice having been in all places(apparently for fome thonfands of years) by propagating the moft delicate of Fruits by the Grafs, ‘tisalmoft a defperate task to attempt the raifing of the /ike, or better Fruit from the rudiments of the Kerzel. Yet fince our defign of relieving the want of Wine, by a Succedanenm ofCider, (as lately improy'd) isa kind of Modern Invention, We may encourage and commend their patience and dili- . gence who endeavour to raife feveral kinds of Wildixgs for the tryal of that excellent Liquor; efpecially fince by late experience we have found, that Wildings are the more proper Cider-Fruits 5 fome of them growing more fpeedily, bearing foomer, more conftantly, and in greater abundancein leaner Land, muchfuller, of juice, and that more mafculine, and of a more Wizy vigour. Thus the famous Red-/trake of Hereford-fhire is a pure Wilding, and within the memoryof fome now living firnamed the-Scuda- mores Crab,and then not much known fave in the Neighbourhood,&c. Yet nowit would be difficult to fhew that Red-ftrake which grew froma Kernel in that whole Traé, all being fince become graffed Trees. Thus'tis alfo believed, That the Bromsbury Crab Cwhich Or, An Appendix con ermng Frait- Trees, &c. ther younger Tree, iffuing from the founder part of a Rootof the fam old Tree, hadfull and ae Kern a aier And from fome fuch Obfervation might the production of Ber- beries, &c. without Stones, be happily attempted 5 an Infirumeni fitted to take out the wzarrow orpith of the Branches, (as the fame D* Beale perform’dit 5) for from the numerical Buth of that Fruit he found fowe Branches produce Berberies that had no {tonesothers which had 5 and in fearching for the canje of the effect, perceived, that the pith or heart was taken from the radicat,or main Branche as the other was full of pith, and confequently the fruit in perfectis, on;ofall which(he writes me word)he made feveral tryals on other fruit, but left the place before he could fee the event, But he adds; Thefe many years (alnofitwenty) Ihave yearly tr?’'d Kernels in Beds of cleaw Earth, Pots, and Pans, and by the very leaves (as they appear dinfirftfpringing for one moneth) I could difcern how far my Effays had civiliz'd’em : The Wilder hadfhorter, Stiffer, brown, orfox-colour'd leaves, The more ingenuous had more tender, more Spreading leaves; and approaching the lighter verdureof the Berbery leafwhen it firft appears. He adds, Some Apples are call'd Rofe-Apples, Rofemary-Apples, Gilly- flower-Apples, Orange-Apples, withfeveral other adjunths, deno- wminating them, from what Reafon I know wot. But if weintended to tryfach i#fuftons upon the Kernels (as fhould endeavour toalter their kinds ) we fhould not approve of the bedabbling them with fuch infufions, ( for over-zoiffure would rather enervate than {trengthen them) but rather prepare the Earth the year before,with fuch infuccations, and then hinder it from producing any Weeds, till ready for the Kernels, and thenin dewy times, and more fre- carriesthe fame in fome parts of Glocester-fhire ) and manyof the quently when our Climate were furcharg’d with rain, cover the White Amfts, and Green Adufts, are originally Savages; asnow in Beds and Pots with the fall leaves of Rofemary, Gillflowers, or other oderiferous Blofomes, and repeat it often, tothe end the dems may weteorize, and emit their finer Spirits, &c. Or ifanyfhall Somer({et-fhire they have a generous Cider made of promifcuous Rernels, ot wngraffed Trees, which fills their confidence that no other Cider does exceed it; and ‘tis indeed ftrong, and of a generous vigour, Nordare we pofitively deny, but that even the beft of our 7able-fruit came alfo originally from the kernel: For it istruly noted by my L.Bacow, That the Fruit does generally obey the Graff, and jields very little to the Stock 5 yet {ome little it does. The famous Bezy de Hery,an excellent Musky Pear,was brought into the beft Orchards of France from a Fore/tin Bretainy, where it grew wild, and was but of late takennotice of. But nowto the deep Reafox we lately threatned: We have by an Experiment found fome neer affinity between the Kerzel of the Appleandthe heart orinteriour of the Stock: For Ifaw (fays Dr. Beale) au old rotten Kernel-Tree bearing a delicate Summer-fruit, yieldingflore of fmooth Cider, (‘tis calhd the French-Kernel-Tree, and is alfoa Dwarf, as isthe Red-ftrake; ) and examining divers Kernels, many years fuccelfrvely, of that hollow and decayed Tree, I found them always veryfvzall of growth, and empty, meer skins of Kernels,aot wulike to the emasculated Scrotumof az Eunuch; another pleafe to be fo liberal of their Salts and Calcinations of peculiar Virtues (thoughpoflibly the E/jay may indanger their feeds) yet the mixture offuch Salts finely reduc’d and ftrewed difcreetly on their Beds, may bea more probable means, than thofe Liquid In- fuftons which have hitherto been fo confidently boafted. For thus alfo we are in this 4ge of ours provided of more vigorous Ingredients for trials than were known tothe Ancients. Finally, From what has been deduc’d from the Wilding of feveral parts, it may manifeftly appear, how much more congeneal fome foil js than other, to yield the beft Cider-fruit from the Kernel; and the bazale ground, or quicker mould, much better than the more obftinate clay or ranker earth: In hot Gravelly-Grounds, wherealmoft no fortof Fruit will grow, Pears willthrive 3 and aFriend of mine affures me, of One that clave a Rock, andfilling it with a little good Earth, planted a Pear-tree therein, which profper’d exceedingly: I add this,that none may go hence without encouragement. Cc CHAP. |
